I'm currently active in the interactive fiction and fighting game communities, and I write for TheVideogameBacklog.com in my spare time. I'm a professional software developer who once worked in the game industry.

Writing is a hobby of mine, and I'm greatly interested in possible technological solutions to problems in interactive fiction.

There is also -block which is all-new. r n r nFormerly when we defined a phrase with the begin -- end bit on the end, Inform would follow whatever your inclusion was with an opening brace, to be closed again after the indentation ended. But what if you wanted to ...

Hi Max, 90 Percent Of Game AI Is A Maybe if 90 of the games you make are spatial navigation. My most popular post at Gamasutra is how walking kills interactive narrative: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RonNewcomb/20090329/965/Walking not Violence Kills Interactive Narrative.php And as a bonus round, I just posted an article about how ...

Tr s cool Although the publishers' graph confused me, cause I know that 989 Studios released more than just Syphon Filter during the Metacritic years, Twisted Metal 3 and Rally Cross among them. RC might've been a 90 as well, but TM3 certainly wasn't, so that particular graph seems, well, ...

I wonder if CCP shouldn't just outsource the selling of novelty items et al for real money to their own players. As in, a player of EVE could aspire to be a real-world reseller of in-game digital stuff. Say, if you want a monocle, you a player doesn't buy it ...

I disagree with the post as well. Who was the writer who, in response to the maxim, A story is anything with a beginning, middle, and end, said, My weiner dog has a beginning, middle and end, but that doesn't make him a story. Granted, I've see the pointillist way ...